Chapter 5. Information Panels, Leds And External Ports - IBM BNT Installation Manual

Chapter 5. Information panels, LEDs, and external ports
This chapter describes the information panels and LEDs on the switch module and
identifies the external ports on the information panels.
Note: The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware.
Information panel
The front panel of the switch module contains information LEDs, ten SFP+ module
port connectors, one RS-232 serial port connector, and one Ethernet port connector,
as shown in the following illustration.
The switch-module information panel contains the following components:
v LEDs that display the following information:
v
v One RS-232 serial port connector for console port use (management purposes)
v One RJ-45 Ethernet port connector. Do not attach any devices to this connector
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– The status of the switch module and its network connection
– The status of the external connections to the switch module
For further details about LEDs, see "Information LEDs" on page 24.
Ten SFP+ port connectors to attach SFP+ modules. These connectors are
identified as ports EXT1 through EXT10 in the I/O-module configuration menus
and are labeled 1 through 10 (from left to right) on the switch module.
only. This connector is between SFP+ module ports 5 and 6 on the switch
module. Do not attach any devices to this connector other than the serial cable
that comes with the switch module, as described in Chapter 4, "Cabling the
switch module and the SFP+ module," on page 19.
other than a compatible cable. This connector is identified as port EXT11 in the
I/O-module configuration menus and is labeled 11 on the switch module.
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